LIKE Iain Mann (Letters, February 28), I was born and bred in Glasgow, and I agree with him that the litter problem is now getting out of hand. However, I must take issue with him on his statement that it the young who are to blame.

On several occasions I have seen teachers coming out of a secondary school and dropping crisp packets, sweetie wrappers and the like on the ground beside a litter bun in full view of the pupils.

Many times in Glasgow I have hear a parent tell their children: “Just drop it.”

If a child sees his or her teacher or Mummy or Daddy drop litter, then of course they will copy it.

Perhaps the parents (and teachers) should be educated in this regard. Whatever happens, don’t blame young people en masse, as many of them are responsible children.

Dorothy Priestly,

26 Dinmont Road, Glasgow.

TRAVELLING along Stockiemuir Road at least once a week, I am disgusted at the amount of litter on both sides of the road to Drymen. As there are no pavements, I presume the litter must come from cars or lorries. What can be done to stop this vandalism of our beautiful countryside?

Phyl Kee,

16 St Germains, Bearsden.

WE are living in a very divided country just now, so perhaps we can learn from another country which was also divided, but in its case by a most horrific genocide more than 20 years ago. I refer to Rwanda.

Nowadays, on the last Saturday of every month, the people, whether Tutsis or Hutus, every man, woman and child, turns out to keep their streets and public places swept and cleared of litter . Could we in Scotland ever have such civic pride?

Peter Jensen,

Tigh an Abhainn, Skipness, Argyll.